Days of the Living Dead and the Dead Ideas.

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2004)

"Night of the Living Dead"-styled hybrid about a deadly, incurable virus that spreads like wildfire through the United Kingdom over a month's time and turns its victims into dangerous monsters. By the end of that month the central character (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma and finds that most all of London has been deserted. He finds very few survivors (Naomie Harris, Megan Burns and Brendan Gleeson, the latter's father) and together they embark on a seemingly impossible trek to survive. As time passes they actually find a few more survivors (military soldiers led by the mysterious Christopher Eccleston), but that development does not necessarily ensure the small group's safety. "28 Days Later..." starts off very well, but then spins out of control when Murphy actually begins to discover that he is not the only one left alive in his homeland. Gleeson is the only interesting character, but he is not around enough to lift a film that is already starting to go down the drain by the time he appears. The movie just feels very strange to put it mildly. Its editing, cinematography and even its music (its score is copied from recent masterpieces "The Thin Red Line" and "Traffic") mix and mesh to complete a potentially interesting, but ultimately mediocre film-making effort. 2 stars out of 5.